Lola's at the Bowery would be a great place to meet up. It's only a block away from The Brady.
On that same block is
Caz's Chowhouse,
The Mexicali (where I heard LB ate dinner last time). A little further away is
McNellie's Public House -- they have like over 100 beers on tap, cool place.
All of these places will be busy -- downtown workers, Friday happy hours.
I was kinda thinking about going down there early and see if I could catch anything going on...soundcheck or something.